Twitter users vote for Elon Musk to quit platform

Billionaire hints at rule changes for policy-related polls after millions of users urge him to leave the platform

Elon Musk
Musk asked his 122m followers whether he should resign as Twitter CEO – and promised to abide by result
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Elon Musk is under mounting pressure to resign as Twitter CEO after launching – and losing – an online poll on whether he should quit the social media platform.

In a post on Sunday evening, Musk asked his 122m followers whether he should “step down as head of Twitter” and promised to “abide by the results” of the vote. When the poll closed on Monday, more than 17.5m users had given their verdicts, with 57.5% voting for Musk to go.

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